UNHAPPY:Analysts interpreted the Xi Jinping-James Soong meeting as a rebuke to the Ma administration for its inability to implement the service trade agreement

Soong called on Xi to improve his understanding of Taiwan’s democratic system and its pluralistic society, while showing understanding of the problems faced by the owners of Taiwan’s small and medium-sized enterprises, who grew up in a nation whose economy was diversified and independent, and who often had to work away from home.